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Cabinet - Sources

Morisonian Herbarium
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Insects
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Mary Murphy's Album
17. Polishing weapons
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Clone of The spread of botanical gardens outside Italy
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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Bird feather fan
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Geographies of collecting
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Soldier’s Letters
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Saami man
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